State auditor decries ‘bad data’ on Iowa Medicaid home health care
BPC Staff Jan 10, 2020 | 4:55 pm
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103 wordsAll Latest News, Health & Wellness, Iowa News, Law & GovernmentRadio Iowa: An audit of data regarding home health care provided to Iowa Medicaid recipients repeatedly found “incomplete and incorrect” information, state Auditor Rob Sand said Thursday. “Obviously, you can’t analyze data if data is not reliable, and so if you don’t have good data analysis, then you’re going to have a very hard time measuring quality of care as well as stopping fraud,” he said. Sand, a Democrat who has been state auditor for the past year, said the state auditor’s office ran into resistance when asking Iowa Medicaid managers for information even when Republican Mary Mosiman was state auditor in 2018.